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5 Worlds Recort1By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent STAGG .FIELD, Chicago, June 21 (UP).—In a carnival .of record-breaking performances, Indiana university won the eleventh national collegiate A, A. traek and field championship and the United States 'discovered a dozen or more athletes worthy of wearing the red, \, white and. blue shield in the Olympic games at Los Angeles this summer.Going into the pole vault, finalevent on the 15-event N. C, A. A. program. Indiana and Ohio State .were, deadlocked with 46'points each .for- first place and Bryce Beecher won it with a vault of 13 feet 10 j inches to give the Hoosiers a final ! total of 56 points.Ohio State scored 49-V, points for second. Dlace. and Minnesota placed third with 31% points.• .Daring a day which saw some o?1 the greatest running ever witnessed i on an American track, five world's ' records were smashed, another world record equaled, six meet records surpassed and another meet record tied.•Ralph Metcalfe. Marquette soph-iomore negro sprint star, accounted j for three of the world's records andI tied 'another. He won the 100 yard ■dash in :09.5. seconds, equaling the accepted world's record, and can-1 tured the 220 yard dash in :2G.5 ! seconds, one-tenth of a second faster than Roland Locke’s world mark. .^Metcalfe also was timed 'at : 10.2 seconds in the 100 meters and ;20.2 seconds in the 200 meters, breaking : the .-world's record in each.George Saline?. Iowa, ran the 120 yard highs in :14.1 seconds and Jack i Keller, Ohio State, won the 220 yard low. hurdles in :.:2,7 seconds, new 'world marks for each event.Glenn Cunningham, Kansas soph-[.omore, ran one of the .five or .six ! -fastest miles ever. recorded when the won that event; in 4 minutes, j 11:1 seconds. It eclipsed Joie-Ray’s i American. ..record .of 4:12, and the ! intercollegiate record of 4:12.4 made ' by Ralph Kill, Oregon.| . .George,'Venzke ran-a mile, indoors (last winter in fast .time, but indoor j:marks, are not eligible as world rec-I ords. . The world’;: outdoor record i is 4:10.4, held by Paavo Nurmi,
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Nevada State Journal

Reno, Nevada, US

Sun, Jun 12, 1932

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